PLUS (MT)

NOVA"Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures"
Set adrift in the southern seas some 65 million years ago, Australia's many unusual creatures, like the kangaroo and the cassowary, tell a tale of isolation, change and resilience. Host Richard Smith travels the continent tracing this long history. Part 4 of 4G

7:00 pm

1962 World's Fair: When Seattle Invented The Future
Seattle's six-month party starring the Space Needle 50 years ago featured the wonders of technology expected in the future. This film tells how the World's Fair came to the Northwest city and what its lasting contributions are today. Archival footage brings the fair to life. Interviews outline the part its technological exhibits have played in today's electronic developments.G

8:00 pm

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers"Losing It"
Cameras follow several people, including Alda, as they adopt different strategies for weight loss from online diet systems to gastric bypass surgery. Alda also learns about research that explains why dieting is so difficult.G

9:00 pm

Secrets of the Dead"Bugging Hitler's Soldiers"
Britain's MI19 installed listening devices to eavesdrop on German POWs held at three sites in England. The evidence is stored on wax disks - a 120,000-hour archive. The program tells how German researchers are combing through this treasure trove and several reenactments dramatize the conversations they are revealing.G

10:00 pm

NOVA"Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures"
Set adrift in the southern seas some 65 million years ago, Australia's many unusual creatures, like the kangaroo and the cassowary, tell a tale of isolation, change and resilience. Host Richard Smith travels the continent tracing this long history. Part 4 of 4G

11:00 pm

1962 World's Fair: When Seattle Invented The Future
Seattle's six-month party starring the Space Needle 50 years ago featured the wonders of technology expected in the future. This film tells how the World's Fair came to the Northwest city and what its lasting contributions are today. Archival footage brings the fair to life. Interviews outline the part its technological exhibits have played in today's electronic developments.G